Centrifugal liquid-separator.



P. L. KIMBALL. y GBNTRIFUGAL LIQUID SEPARATOR.

APPLICATION FI'LED MAB. 12, 1909.

Patented July 13,1909;

UNITED sTATEs PATENT oEEIoE.

PERLEY L. KIMBALL, OF RELLOWS FALLS, VERMONT, ASSIGNOR TO VERMONT FARM MACHINE COMPANY, 'OF BELLOWS FALLS, VERMONT, A CORPORATION OF VERMONT.

CENTRIFU'GAL LIQUID-SEPARVATOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 13, 1909.

Application filed lfarch 12. 1909. Serial No. 482,983.

To all whom it may concern:- f

Be it known that I, PERLEY L. KIMBALL, a

vcitizen of .the'United States of America, re-

siding at Bellows Falls, in the county of Windham and -State of Vermont, have invented certain Improvements in Centrifugal sprung or bent out of parallelism, and as aV consequence when thisgoccurs there is difficulty in enterino' the unsupportedends of such rods into the socket therefor in the plate at the top or bottom of the series of Subdividers .when assembling the parts, and these improvements consist' in a tie-yoke secured to the rods near their ends which are unsup orted when the Subdividers are remove to hold said rods firmly in their nor# mal parallel osition, both in relation to one another and 1n relation to the axis of the bowl, and also in providing modified means for readily securing the rods to and releasing them from the plates at top or bottom of the series of Subdividers, and under some conditions it may be found convenient to apply the readily releasing means to both upper and the lower ends of the rods instead of to one. end only.

`In the drawings forming a` part ofthis specification, Figure l is an elevation of the retaining rods, with the tie-yoke, the subdividers and their securing means in section; Fig. 2 is a plan view of the upper plate of the subdivider series and of the modified form of securing device therefor; Fig. 3 is a plan view of a circular tic-yoke with the retaining rods in section on line 3*-3, Fig.' l Fig. 4 is a sectional elevation on line 4-4, Fig. 2.

Referring to the drawings by letters to designate the several parts, S are the sub dividers,` R, It, the adjusting and retaining rods therefor, T is the top plaie and rI" the armor are assembled.

bottom plate for the series of snbdividers to which the rods R are secured by riveting or screwing one end, as p, into one of the plates, and attaching the other end of each `to the other plate by readily released means,

a slot 0 in the key and is secured in thel plate T.

' As illustrated in Fig. l the lower ends of the rods Rare screwed into the lower plate T', which holds those ends securelyin position under allr conditions, and in order to hold these rods in parallelism at all times, a tie-yoke y is placed between them near their upper ends and secured to each by rivets or otherwise, by means of which the rods are rigidly held in their normal parallel position` when all of the Subdividers have been separated therefrom.A This tie-yoke is illus-v trated as Va ring, which form is used for the purpose of accommodatin a central rod 'which is used to clamp t e cover to the bowl; one half of a circle would be sufficient for such tie-yoke, for instance, as illustrated by the sectional view in Fig. l, and when -the cover is secured to the bowl by other means than the central rod, and no feed tube passes down through the center of the bowl, a straight bar may beused as such tie-yoke.

I claim:

l. In a centrifugal liquid separator, provided with a seriesof superposed annular Subdividers within the bowl,r a plurality of adjusting and retaining rods for such subdividers, which rods extend within the annular space therein from a plate above the series to a plate below'the series and are adapted to be attached to said plates, and a tie-yoke secured to said rods near the ends thereof'which will otherwise be' left unsupported when the Subdividers are separated from the rods, which yoke is constructed so as to hold the rods firmly `in their normal position in relation to each other and to the axis of the bowl and to leave an unobstructed space for an axially located clamping rod for the cover when the parts of the sep* 2. In a centrifugal liquid separator, prof vided with a series of superposed annular Subdividers' Within ,the bowl, a plurality of adjusting and retaining rods for such subdividers which rods extend throufrh the annular space therein from a plate t:below the series to a plate'above the series andare securely attached to one of said plates, readily released means for attaching said rods to the other plate and a tie-yoke se cured to said rods near the yends to which the readily released means are, applied, to hold the rods in their normal position in relation to leach other Whelri such means are removed.

3. In a centrifugal liquid separator, proeasn vided with a series of superposed annular Subdividers Within the bowl, a plurality of adjusting and retaining rods rfor such subdividers, which rods extend Within the annular space of the Subdividers from a plate PERLEY L. K'IMBALL.

Witnesses:

` R. C.'B11 WELL,

F. C. HILDRETH. 

